[2] She has produced the books West of Then: A Mother, a Daughter, and a Journey Past Paradise (2004) and Betwixt (2007).
[2] She graduated from Dartmouth College and received a master's in non-fiction writing from Columbia University.
[2][3] Her first book was a memoir, West of Then: A Mother, a Daughter, and a Journey Past Paradise, published in 2004.
Smith made her debut as a young adult author with her second book, the teen novel Betwixt (2007), which became the basis for a pilot for The CW Television Network, but was never turned into a series.
The proposed series, called Betwixt and then Changelings, would have starred three teenagers (Jessy Schram, Allison Miller and Josh Henderson) who find out they are "changelings" who have the ability to protect the world from evil.